| We Are from Jazz | Karen Shakhnazarov | Soviet Union |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | United States |
| Coast of Love | Charlotte Dubreuil | France |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | United States |
| Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | Jean Yanne | France |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| La Soupe aux choux | Jean Girault | France |
| The Prodigal Son | Sammo Hung | Hong Kong |
| Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen? | Hans Iveberg | Sweden |
| The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians | Oldřich Lipský | Czechoslovakia |
| Private Benjamin | Howard Zieff | United States |
| Julia Julia | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | Norway |
| El vicario de Olot | Ventura Pons | Spain |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | United Kingdom, United States |
| Smokey and the Bandit II | Hal Needham | United States |
| Security Unlimited | Michael Hui | Hong Kong |
| Any Which Way You Can | Buddy Van Horn | United States |
| Pilla Zamindar | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | India |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Philippe de Broca | France |
| Frankenstein: Italian Style | Armando Crispino | Italy |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | United States |
| Kind Men | Karen Shakhnazarov | Soviet Union |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | Italy |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | France, Italy |
| Oh dolci baci e languide carezze | Mino Guerrini | Italy |
| The Rabbit Case | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | United Kingdom, United States |
| Goin' South | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| The Frisco Kid | Robert Aldrich | United States |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Vincent McEveety | United States |
| Brácha za vsechny penize | Stanislav Strnad | Czechoslovakia |
| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | Japan |
| Funny People | Mikhail Schweitzer | Soviet Union |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | Sweden, Australia |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | United Kingdom, United States |
| Animal | Claude Zidi | France |
| Racha, my love | Joseph Medved, Temur Palavandishvili | Georgian SSR, Czechoslovakia |
| Nickelodeon | Peter Bogdanovich | United Kingdom, United States |
| Freaky Friday | Gary Nelson | United States |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Bør Børson II | Stein Roger Bull | Norway |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang | Norman Tokar | United States |
| The Prize Trap | István Dárday | Hungary |